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More Immigrants Than Ever Are Challenging Detention
An analysis of habeas cases since 2009 shows that
immigrants have filed more challenges to their detention in the first 13 months of Trump’s second term
than in the last three administrations combined
— and the number keeps rising.
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court
from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal,
mor…

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.
Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.

From that well-known hotbed of leftist radicalism, the daily Bloomberg markets newsletter.
That (paywalled) column is at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-11/the-insurance-crisis-is-about-to-get-even-worse

Disinformation works:
Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/10/two-thirds-of-uk-voters-wrongly-think-immigratio…

Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropi…

Anthropic to cover costs of electricity price increases from data centers
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced that it will ensure consumer electricity costs remain steady as it expands its data center footprint.

Dozens of Kids Entered Foster Care After Immigration Agents Detained Their Parents (Jackie Llanos/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/immigrant-detention-deportation-foster-care-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p40#a260210p40

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 24 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

In early February there were more than 750 families,
nearly half of them including children,
as well as some 370 single adult women
being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.
It is just one of many immigration centers across the country,
but the only one holding families.
Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed,
-- increasing sixf…

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

ICE and CBP Heads Mum on Discipline Against Immigration Agents (Jackie Llanos/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-cbp-uscis-oversight-hearing-house-immigration-agent-misconduct
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p122#a260210p122

Russian attacks kill 2, injure 15 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

Top federal immigration officials answer lawmaker questions
On Capitol Hill, leaders for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
will answer questions from the House homeland security committee.
Rodney Scott, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP),
Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
and Todd Lyons, acting d…